In Kenya, planned power interruptions are published as formal notices listing affected markets, schools, and villages by name, and customers are directed to the website, social media, or the newspaper to find them. The gap is real enough that independent apps exist purely to convert those notices into phone alerts. The utility holds the meter records and the phone numbers. Someone else does the notifying.
Early Warning & Alerts
Delivered Is Not the Same as Received: The Case for Acknowledgment-Based Alerting
Jul 11, 2026
Every operations lead has lived this conversation. The alert went out. The dashboard shows delivered. And the driver, the field tech, the miner or the borrower says, with complete sincerity, that they never got the message. Both sides are telling the truth, because "delivered" and "received" describe two different events, and the gap between them is where incidents, missed payments, and failed audits live.